# molior
## Latin
### Etymology

From mōlēs (“a pile, heap”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmoː.li.or/, [ˈmoːlʲiɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.li.or/, [ˈmɔːlior]

### Verb

mōlior (present infinitive mōlīrī or mōlīrier, perfect active mōlītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent
* to strive, endeavor, work at
* to put in motion, shake, move
* to rouse, bestir
* to undertake, start, begin, commence
* to erect, construct
* (figuratively) to attempt, stir up
** c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Persa 5.2.8:
    Quia eī fidem nōn habuī argentī, eō mihi eās māchinās mōlītu'st.
       Because I had no trust in him about the silver, he laid me these machinations.
** 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations 1.8:Nihil agis, nihil mōlīris, nihil cōgitās quod nōn ego nōn modo audiam sed etiam videam plānēque sentiam.You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
** c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.268–272:Quippe etiam fēstīs quaedam exercēre diēbus fās et iūra sinunt: rīvōs dēdūcere nūlla rēligiō vetuit, segetī praetendere saepem, īnsidiās avibus mōlīrī, incendere veprēs, bālantumque gregem fluviō mersāre salūbrī.Of course, even on holidays to do some tasks divine order and laws allow: to guide down the rills no religion has forbidden, to lay a hedge in front of a crop, to set the birds traps, to burn bushes, to bathe the bleating herd in the clean river.

#### Conjugation

$^1$The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

#### Synonyms

* (strive): lūctor, ēlabōrō, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, temptō, affectō, tendō, quaerō, studeō, contendō, appetō, adnītor, labōrō, pugnō, ēnītor, perīclitor, nītor, spectō
* (construct): aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, cōnstituō, exstruō, statuō
* (start): incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ineō, ingredior, aggredior, sūmō, committō, exorior
* (rouse): cieō, irrītō, stimulō, impellō, concitō, instigō, instinguō, exciō, ădhortor, inflammō, flammō, sollicitō, incendō, ērigō

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “start”): subsistō, dēsistō, cessō
* (antonym(s) of “rouse”): domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, plācō, restinguō, dēlēniō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō

#### Derived terms

* admōlior
* āmōlior
* commōlior
* dēmōlior
* ēmōlior
* mōlīmen
* mōlīmentum
* mōlītiō
* obmōlior
* praemōlior
* remōlior

#### Related terms

* mōlēs
* molestē
* molestia
* molestus

### References

* “molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* molior in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* “molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* molior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare to be busy with ambitious projects: magna moliri to meditate crime: scelera moliri (Att. 7. 11) to shake credit: fidem moliri (Liv. 6. 11. 8) to plot a revolution: novas res moliri (Verr. 2. 125) to meditate war: bellum moliri